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{7 TTT LINGUA INGLESE | ANNUALITÀ WRITTEN EXAMINATION SCIENZE DELLA MEDIAZIONE LINGUISTICA Prof. W. Pulcini 7 June 2016 Time allowed: 2 hours WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON A SEPARATE SHEET. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. REMEMBER TO WRITE YOUR SURNAME AND NAME (IN CAPITAL LETTERS), MATRICULATION NUMBER, DATE, DEGREE COURSE AND THE MARK AND SESSION OF YOUR FIRST YEAR ENGLISH LETTORATO, BOOKS, DICTIONARIES AND NOTES ARE FORSIDDEN. PART 1. History of English (5 points). (Choose ONE of the following questions and write about 150 words). 4) Illustrato some of the most salient features of Modern English, focusing in particular on the expansion of vocabulary and on the linguigtic debate between Neologisers and Purists, b) Discuss the linguistic problems posed by the spread of English workdwide, especially its use by ESL and EFL speakers (refer in particular to the notion of ‘norm’). PART 2: The pronunciation of English. (10 points) 4) Transcribe the following passage in normal orthography inserting punetuation where necessary. The text is about “English grammar'. ‘melif ‘greemotr) di'skraibz do ‘straktfole)z av di! 'mglif lengwidz diz m'kliuid wadz "freziz "kioziz on 'sentansiz dolo: Iu'storki ‘so0fl "kaltforal on ‘ridizoni vo'ralotiz av ‘melif m witf dar'vadzonsiz a'ka:! r'spefali im som 'daralekts do di'skmipfn ov ‘inelifo ‘grema iz ‘berst pn ‘preznt der ‘staendod 'mglif da fim av spitf faund mo tups sv ‘'‘pablik ‘diskoss m'klu:dm ‘brodko:stm edzu'keifn jenta'tetmmont 'gavanmant an nju:z m'potiy et boud ‘formi and m'fami "levolz do' a: 'sstn di'stinkfnz im ‘greemafr) bi'twim do ‘stendad form ov ‘brtf ‘mglf s'menkon 'nglf and o'strelion ‘inglif al'00 diz met sim small kom'pea(r)d ta "eksiki an pro mansi'eifn ‘difransiz b) Ilustrate some differences between British and American English pronunciations involving single phonemes and/or stress patterns. PART 3: Grammar (10 points). a) Identify clause functions (S, P, ©, C, A) and grammatical classes (NP, VP, PP, AdjP, Adv.P) inthe following clause by drawing a tree-diagram. A nervous witness told the judge a series of inaccuracies. b) List the five ‘closed classes* of words existing in English and provide one example for each class. PART 4: The English lexicon (5 points) (Choose ONE of the following questions and write about 150 words). 4) Whattype of linguistic information do you find în a dictionary? Explaîn some differences that emerge from different types of dictionaries you may refer to (provide specific examples!) b) Explain what type of phrascological relations exists between the following: i) true love: ii) love at first sight; ii) ot ofsighi, out of mind. 
